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To facilitate effective, safe deployment in the real world, individual robots must reason about interactions with other agents, which often occur without explicit communication. Recent work has identified game theory, particularly the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Avishav Engle , Andrey Zhitnikov , Oren Salzman , Omer Ben-Porat , Kiril Solovey

Neuroevolution is a process of training neural networks (NN) through an evolutionary algorithm, usually to serve as a state-to-action mapping model in control or reinforcement learning-type problems. This paper builds on the Neuro Evolution…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Amir Behjat , Sharat Chidambaran , Souma Chowdhury

Software is omnipresent within all factors of society. It is thus important to ensure that software are well tested to mitigate bad user experiences as well as the potential for severe financial and human losses. Software testing is however…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Jason Wang , Basem Suleiman , Muhammad Johan Alibasa

Search-based test generation is guided by feedback from one or more fitness functions - scoring functions that judge solution optimality. Choosing informative fitness functions is crucial to meeting the goals of a tester. Unfortunately,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Hussein Almulla , Gregory Gay

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have a wide range of applications, and software employing them must be thoroughly tested, especially in safety-critical domains. However, traditional software test coverage metrics cannot be applied directly to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Youcheng Sun , Xiaowei Huang , Daniel Kroening , James Sharp , Matthew Hill , Rob Ashmore

Noncooperative game-theoretic tools have been increasingly used to study many important resource allocation problems in communications, networking, smart grids, and portfolio optimization. In this paper, we consider a general class of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Gesualdo Scutari , Francisco Facchinei , Jong-Shi Pang , Daniel P. Palomar

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has recently become a topic of great interest. However, there is a potentially impactful issue within NAS that remains largely unrecognized: noise. Due to stochastic factors in neural network initialization,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Arkadiy Dushatskiy , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Developing asynchronous neuromorphic hardware to meet the demands of diverse real-life edge scenarios remains significant challenges. These challenges include constraints on hardware resources and power budgets while satisfying the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jian Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Jingchen Huang , Jilin Zhang , Hong Chen

Over the last several decades, computer games started to have a significant impact on society. However, although a computer game is a type of software, the process to conceptualize, produce and deliver a game could involve unusual features.…

In this work, we propose a novel evolutionary algorithm for neural architecture search, applicable to global search spaces. The algorithm's architectural representation organizes the topology in multiple hierarchical modules, while the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Aristeidis Christoforidis , George Kyriakides , Konstantinos Margaritis

Recent one-shot Neural Architecture Search algorithms rely on training a hardware-agnostic super-network tailored to a specific task and then extracting efficient sub-networks for different hardware platforms. Popular approaches separate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Maciej Szankin , Fang Chen , Sairam Sundaresan , Anthony Sarah

Neuroevolutionary algorithms, automatic searches of neural network structures by means of evolutionary techniques, are computationally costly procedures. In spite of this, due to the great performance provided by the architectures which are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Unai Garciarena , Nuno Lourenço , Penousal Machado , Roberto Santana , Alexander Mendiburu

Software testing research has traditionally relied on closed-world assumptions, such as finite state spaces, reproducible executions, and stable test oracles. However, many modern software systems operate under uncertainty, non-determinism,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yusaku Kato , Norihiro Yoshida , Erina Makihara , Katsuro Inoue

Software flaw detection using multimodal deep learning models has been demonstrated as a very competitive approach on benchmark problems. In this work, we demonstrate that even better performance can be achieved using neural architecture…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-23 Alexis Cooper , Xin Zhou , Scott Heidbrink , Daniel M. Dunlavy

Early advancements in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) architectures are primarily driven by human expertise and by elaborate design processes. Recently, neural architecture search was proposed with the aim of automating the network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Zhichao Lu , Ian Whalen , Yashesh Dhebar , Kalyanmoy Deb , Erik Goodman , Wolfgang Banzhaf , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have revolutionized computer vision. We now have DNNs that achieve top (performance) results in many problems, including object recognition, facial expression analysis, and semantic segmentation, to name but a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ciprian Corneanu , Meysam Madadi , Sergio Escalera , Aleix Martinez

Modern random access mechanisms combine packet repetitions with multi-user detection mechanisms at the receiver to maximize the throughput and reliability in massive Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios. However, optimizing the access policy,…

We propose a novel hardware and software co-exploration framework for efficient neural architecture search (NAS). Different from existing hardware-aware NAS which assumes a fixed hardware design and explores the neural architecture search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Weiwen Jiang , Lei Yang , Edwin Sha , Qingfeng Zhuge , Shouzhen Gu , Sakyasingha Dasgupta , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) have become essential tools for solving multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs), making their running time analysis crucial for assessing algorithmic efficiency and guiding practical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Han Huang , Tianyu Wang , Chaoda Peng , Tongli He , Zhifeng Hao

Many optimization problems in engineering and industrial design applications can be formulated as optimization problems with highly nonlinear objectives, subject to multiple complex constraints. Solving such optimization problems requires…

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